Marketers and Lobbyists Weigh In on USPS Crisis

Sep 22, 2011 7:18 AM, By Tim Parry and Jim Tierney

If Congress does not intervene in the form of legislation by Sept. 30 – the end of the USPS’s fiscal year – Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe says the U.S. Postal Service will not be able to make its retiree healthcare benefit prepayment and default on its financial obligation. What does this mean for multichannel merchants that rely on the catalog channel? Multichannel Merchant senior writers Tim Parry and Jim Tierney went to the NEMOA Fall Conference in Quincy, MA on Sept. 21 and asked that question to five retail industry leaders.